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DoublePlusGood

Jan 12, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

WHIPPOORWILL

5:00 PM		Black Czar Rookoombey Rookoombey Sounds Of The Caribbean 1973 Calypsonian from Panama
5:03 PM		Basil Kirchin The Dice Is Cast Particles Trunk Records 2007 was a British drummer and composer whose career stretched from playing drums in his father's Big band at the age of 13, through scoring films, to experimenting with the manipulation of recorded sounds which has seen him cited as "the father of ambient music".
5:05 PM		Elizabeth Parker Radio Blackburn BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Soundhouse V/A Silva Screen Records 2016
5:07 PM		Innovations Put a Little Away N Seabird - Single Munster 1977 Peruvian bedroom pop, originally released in 1977 on the Mag label. Now reissued on Munster
5:11 PM		Heavenly Over and Over Heavenly vs. Satan Sarah Records 1991
5:14 PM		Downy Mildew Purple Parlor Downy Mildew Texas Hotel 1986 jangle-pop group from San Luis Obispo, California, active between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.
5:19 PM		Marie Bryant with Mike McKenzie Quintet Don't Touch Me Tomato Mommie Out De Light Monogram
5:21 PM		Marine Research Queen B Sounds from the Gulf Stream Elefant Records 1999 Members of Heavenly, Talulah Gosh & Tender Trap Rob Pursey, Amelia Fletcher, Peter Momtchiloff, Cathy Rogers & John Stanley
5:25 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot shimmies
5:28 PM		The Green Pajamas She's Still Bewitching Me Seven Fathoms Down And Falling Rubric Records 1999
5:30 PM		The Clean Billy Two Boodle Boodle Boodle - EP Flying Nun Records 1991 formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978. They originally broke up in 1982, but came back in 1988 and toured sporadically thereafter. Drummer Hamish Kilgour passed away in Dec 2022.
5:32 PM		Chemicals Made From Dirt Manikin Ike Hyped To Death 2000
5:35 PM		Minutemen Jesus and Tequila Double Nickels On the Dime SST Records 1984
5:38 PM		Radio Birdman Hand of Law Radios Appear Trafalgar 1977
5:43 PM		The Clash Police On My Back Eddy Grant Sandinista! CBS 1980
5:46 PM		The Undertones My Perfect Cousin My Perfect Cousin - EP Union Square Music 1980
5:48 PM		Horse Lords Macaw Hidden Cities NNA Tapes 2014 quartet of Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar), and Sam Haberman (drums) from Baltimore, Maryland. The band plays experimental music with elements of krautrock, post-punk, Appalachian and African musical traditions, polyrhythmia, arcane tunings and modular synthesis. The band uses the just intonation tuning system favored by avantgarde composers La Monte Young and James Tenney, so the musicians are playing hand-modified guitars with repositioned frets, re-tuned and customized by Gardner.
5:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot shakes
5:58 PM		The Duke of Iron Calypsonian Invasion Calypso Carnival Monogram Records 1957 AKA Cecil Anderson, Calypsonian, nightclub and concert entertainer, and recording artist from the 1930s through the 1960s.
6:01 PM		Smoke Bellow Furry Computer 2 Open For Business Trouble In Mind Records 2021 Baltimore lo-fi/experimental pop
6:05 PM		Young Marble Giants Final Day Final Day Rough Trade 1980
6:07 PM		The Soft Boys Positive Vibrations Underwater Moonlight Armageddon 1980
6:10 PM		Grupo Maravilla Recordando a Natacha A Sarita Colonia Discos Horóscopo 1985 Peruvian cumbia group led by cumbia musician, composer, orchestra director Jorge Chávez Malaver
6:13 PM		Lilys The Generator Kurt Heasley The 3 Way Sire 1999 Philly. Reunion show happening soon!
6:16 PM		Stereo Total Hungry! (US Version) Do the Bambi Kill Rock Stars 2005
6:18 PM		Wendy Carlos Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - Prelude & Fugue #2 In C Minor, BWV 847 Bach Switched-On Bach Columbia Masterworks 1968
6:21 PM		Books on Tape Republic Of Todd Matthew Drootin Sings the Blues Greyday Records 2003 solo project of Todd Matthew Drootin, L.A.-based artist/electronica producer
6:22 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot knocks over the can
6:27 PM		Aiko el grupo Sexo Fender (Cenicero) N Sexo Fender (Cenicero) - Single Elefant 2022 high energy Spanish pop/punk from Cantabria
6:30 PM		tUnE-yArDs Honesty I can feel you creep into my private life 4AD 2018
6:33 PM		La Mermeláda Solitario de Amor A Bailá con la Mermelá!!! Discos Horóscopo 1982
6:37 PM		Spaceface Happens All the Time Anemoia Mothland 2021
6:40 PM		May Rio Everything Must Go! Easy Bammer Dots Per Inch Music 2021
6:42 PM		Ricardo Lagomasino Future Palo Verde 2020 Maine-based artist who lived in Philly for many years and was a member of the Philly band Many Arms
6:44 PM		MUNYA Pour Toi Voyage to Mars Luminelle Recordings 2021
6:47 PM		Dungen Panda Ta Det Lugnt Subliminal Sounds 2004 Swedish proggy psych 4-piece band from Stockholm, led by singer/composer Gustav Ejstes, who writes all music and plays some of the instruments on the band's records. English meaning of album name: Take it easy!
6:52 PM		Flowchart Rainbow Hello Rainbow Hello / Astro Enraptured 1996 project of the late Philadelphia DJ and producer Sean O'Neal
6:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot happens all the time
6:56 PM		Adam Ant Here Comes the Grump Friend or Foe Epic 1982
7:00 PM		Os Mutantes A Minha Menina Os Mutantes Philips 1968
7:04 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Smokescreen Smokescreen / Handlebars Refill Records 1977 Band with strong DIY ethos who formed in March 1977 specifically for the purpose of recording and releasing a single on their own label. They ended up releasing five singles and one album as The Desperate Bicycles and one single as The Evening Outs. Danny Wigley is the only member who has appeared on all of the releases. They add the credo "It was easy! It was cheap! Go and do it!" to many of their songs!
7:06 PM		Devo Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Warner Records 1978
7:09 PM		XTC Neon Shuffle White Music Virgin Records 1978
7:14 PM		The World/Inferno Friendship Society Jerusalem Boys Red-Eyed Soul Chunksaah 2006 Brooklyn-based collectively-run band that merged punk, soul, klezmer and jazz and was led by the late Jack Terricloth
7:16 PM		Oxford Collapse Loser City Remember the Night Parties Sub Pop Records 2006 Oxford Collapse were an indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The members include Michael Pace on vocals & guitars, Dan Fetherston on drums and Adam Rizer on bass & vocals. Disbanded in June 2009
7:20 PM		The Who Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere / Daddy Rolling Stone Brunswick 1965 2nd single ever released by The Who, after 1964's "I Can't Explain"
7:22 PM		The Bobby Fuller Four Never to Be Forgotten Sonny Curtis Never to Be Forgotten / You Kiss Me Mustang 1965 mid-1960s pop from El Paso, most famous for their recording of I Fought the Law, which was written by Sonny Curtis, a member of Buddy Holly's The Crickets. The band lasted until 1966 when Bobby Fuller was murdered in a parking lot at the age of 23
7:25 PM		Heavenly It's You Heavenly vs. Satan Sarah Records 1991
7:28 PM		Tender Trap Oh Katrina Film Molecules Elefant Records 2002
7:30 PM		Lord Creator Mr. Rake and Scrape Pepper Pot Calypso Songs Me Mama Never Taught Me (Wreck A Pum Pum) Port-O-Jam 1969 AKA Kentrick Randolph Patrick, Calypso and soca artist, born 1935 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Received Jamaica’s Order Of Distinction in 2022. Rake and Scrape genre is popular throughout the Caribbean, especially in the Bahamas
7:33 PM		Simon Bookish Carbon Everything/Everything Tomlab 2008 AKA: Leo Chadburn, British experimental musician and classical composer from Coalville, Leicestershire
7:36 PM		Wendy Carlos Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major L. 209/K. 455 Scarlatti The Well-Tempered Synthesizer Columbia 1969
7:38 PM		Miriam Makeba Jol' Inkomo All About Miriam Mercury 1966 9th studio album from singer/activist Makeba, also known as Mama Africa
7:41 PM		José Gutiérrez & Los Hermanacos Ochoa Siquisirí La Bamba: Sones Jarochos From Veracruz Smithsonian Folkways Mexican folk group from Veracruz who play traditional jarochos
7:44 PM		Taken By Trees Say You Don’t Mind N Another Year - EP Rough Trade 2022 Stockholm-based Swedish indie artist Victoria Lena Bergsman, the former lead singer of The Concretes.
7:47 PM		Caetano Veloso London London Caetano Veloso Philips 1971 3rd self-titled Caetano Veloso album, following one is '68 and one in '69
7:51 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot whirls uncontrollably anyway, anyhow, anywhere
7:56 PM		Jenny Hval Buffy N Buffy - Single 4AD 2022 Norwegian singer, songwriter, guitarist and author

Chat is archived.

hello hello!

I just heard a crazy crashing noise below me, so I'm picturing that either my dog just knocked over the trashcan and is eating garbage, or some other shady thing is going on! No other humans are currently here. The thrill of live radio!

Uh oh! Hi Lizbot!

Hi Number 6!

I know about dogs going through the trash, even the recycling bin is fair game.

TRASH DAWGZ

is my next bands name

Hello Lizbot and Number 6

Howdy Lizbot, DSM, and Number 6

Hello all good citizens of WPRB!

@Number 6 - She LOVES the recycling bin especially - it's got her tasty empty (but still meaty-flavored) dog food cans in it!

Hi DSM!

Given an option, I prefer to hear something than have the cats/dog stalk, growl & gaze at a wall I don’t hear sound coming from.

Hi Rob from Maryland!

Hi Lee Chandler!

Hope she’s ok.

@DSM - haha, my high school mascot was the BullDAWGS (spelled like that)

And hello Lee

@Rob from Maryland - Note the name of today's episode

Lol, that's a team I could have maybe gotten behind!

@Lee Chandler - The sequence of events was as follows: Dog suddenly whines in such a way she usually reserves for one of two scenarios: Scenario #1: It's her dinnertime and she is mad I haven't fed her yet (It's not her dinnertime for another hour, but she sometimes gets confused by these short days/early sunsets and thinks it's later than it is.

Scenario #2: She heard one of us pull into the driveway and start unlocking the front door, at which point she gets so excited and anxious, she whines urgently

Lizbot!

@DSM - Too many mandatory all-school pep rallies during the school day made me fairly resentful of The 'DAWGS, especially since I played soccer for the school but we only had pep rallies for boy's basketball and football. And also, I was forced to play "We Will Rock You" and "Another One Bites the Dust" on clarinet with the school band in the bleachers, and I like Queen, but not those two freakin songs I had to play a million times!

Hello Brian D!

My dog would always need to sit on the couch to look out the window. When I gave away the couch she would go nuts jumping around at any sound going on outside.

@Lee Chandler - I gazed down at her just before going on air and she looked up at me innocently, but I think she's up to something and I couldn't see the whole kitchen and didn't have time to go down there, so we'll see!!

Howzit goin', Brian D?

Hello all!

@Number 6 - My mailman has been bribing my dog daily with a biscuit and she never used to freak out or bark at him, but NOW she does cuz she's jonesing for her newly-acquired mid-day biscuit fix

Lizbot, understandable. Forced anything at that age will make one hate the dawg-gone thing!

Pavlov's dog syndrome!

It's amazing how many people randomly carry biscuits for dogs they don't know! SO many local businesses give her biscuits, and she has memorized each and every one and pulls us towards them until we go in - SNEAKY way to get more business!

I wish the mailman would bring me a buttermilk biscuit everyday

Do you have biscuits in reserve or does she just get the shakes the days he’s off?

@Lee Chandler - Oh, we have a reserve of biscuits, but now she's grown accustomed to MORE biscuits, and particularly the mid-day biscuit!

@DSM - mmm, okay that is sounding very good right now...OR a British style biscuit/cookie. I request a McVitties milk chocolate digestible!

@Number 6 - Yeah, for real! Everyone is re-training my dog with their bribes!

You’re right about the Green Pajamas. I always like what I hear & note it, but never seek beyond that.

argh, slightly undershot that segue!

@Lee Chandler - Yeah, they're really solid. I bought that album back in '99 and never noticed them tour near Philly.

@Lizbot, I just noticed the name of today's show. Why did you call it that?

@Rob - I always name my shows, so even when there isn't a theme, I just come up with whatever strikes me at that moment, and I've always liked that word!

Rob from Maryland, waiting for todays notable person death report.

@Lizbot, it's a cool word for sure. Have you ever heard or seen a whip-poor-will?

@Rob from Maryland - I am fairly certain I've heard them a bunch! My mom always points them out

@Rob - Or rather points out their call

@Lee Chandler - oof. Yeah, I was never a big Jeff Beck fan, so I'm leaving a tribute to him for others, but I know he was a big deal to many

That last track, My Perfect Cousin, is by a Northern Irish band, which reminds me to recommend the show Derry Girls for anyone who hasn't seen it here, esp. if you grew up around catholic nuns and Irish people like I did! A funny show with occasional drama.

Hey fronds! Hope y’all are having a swell evening!

@Lizbot, how nice! One time a migrant whip-poor-will called outside my bedroom window a couple of times during the night. It was nice to hear one so close, but it was so freaking loud that it woke me up each time.

I AM THE LORD OF HORSEFIRE! AND I BRING YOU… 🐴🔥

Hi Addie!

Hi Wesley! ha! I am the Lord of Horses, and I bring you...Macaws?!

Your show is bringing me joy after an exceedingly long day.

This Duke of Iron is the sheez!

@Brian D - Truth! I first heard that track on WWOZ in New Orleans years ago!

@Addie - I'm glad to hear it! Yeah, it was a trying day for me and started out badly, but it turned around for me as soon as I hit the airwaves!

@Brian D - I toured WWOZ, an independent station like PRB, in NOLA and had a great talk with the DJs.

I can imagine getting a furry computer from a Build-A-Bear store. 💻

@Wesley - sounds better than most Build a Bear options!

ROBYN!

@Brian D - You know I'm always happy to Hitch and pitch Robyn

Bang! Bang! in a row here

This song: "taking carrots and swiping words with other parrots" - I wish my parrot would eat carrot but he rejects them. And he only swipes words with me...and sometimes George

Stereo Total ! all the hits tonight!

I played a Wendy Carlos song on my show one time and my mother thought that that was me!

@Number 6! What!? She thought you were playing it on synth yourself?

Yeh!! And I can't play for squat. LOL!

My mother is 96, so she can be excused.

@Number 6 - Wow! My parents are in their 80s and I regularly get calls from my mom asking me to get her stereo working, so I can relate!

DOG MYSTERY SOLVED

I just saw that Lisa Marie Presley suffered cardiac arrest. Condition unknown.:(

My husband just got home: I KNEW the dog was up to no good at the beginning of my show but I couldn't go down and check on her and I'm at the top of a spiral staircase, which she refuses to use (for good reason! She'd break herself on it) so I couldn't call her up here or check on her, but APPARENTLY she knocked over a bag that had some books and a tin of hot cocoa mix in it! THANKFULLY she managed to not pry open the tin!

My big sister had a copy of Switched-On Bach (LP of course. We were kids) What a work that recording was. Synthesizers could only play one note at a time, so to record a chord they had to record each note of the chord separately. 🎹

@Number 6- Whoa! I believe she was JUST at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night! She was there because of that Baz Luhrmann Elvis movie getting nominated in some categories, I think best actor? I dunno, I am not a fan of Baz

@Wesley - Yeah, it's impressive as hell to this day, and even more so when you look at all Wendy had to do to make it! She is a pioneer!

Hi Lizbot! I was digging the show of course and then heard this and said OH THIS IS tUnE-yArDs! Love them, thanks for playing

also all the other stuff you're playing tonight, fantastic

@Wesley - I have friends who released collage music in the 70s where they had to splice the tape a zillion times with reconnect it. And now...Garage Band! Or Logic or whatever program can do that stuff so quickly! I still enjoy a good audio collage! I really liked the most recent Negativland album

“ Lisa Marie Presley is in the Intensive Care Unit, on life support with a temporary pacemaker after suffering cardiac arrest ... sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ.”

Hello Anne! I'm glad you're enjoying it! Did you make it to that free outdoor tUnE-yArDs show at the Piazza in Northern Liberties in the early days of that group? It was epic

Negativland still got it. Some of their best those last couple

the arrangement during the chorus of this Happens All the Time song sounds 60s/70s Philly International Records/ soul influenced

@Brian D - for real! And I love what Mark is trying to do WRT anti-copyright / fair use

@Wesley - oh wow, that sounds very dire

No, I wish! Didn't know about them then. Discovered in the last 2-3 years

@Anne Lopez - Such an ear-candy sound they have!

@Anne Lopez - definitely influenced by African polyrhythms

@Lizbot completely agree, love the polyrhythms and vocal layering

@Anne - so expertly done and shimmery!

DUNGEN!

@Brian D - THE GROVE! (I often wonder if google translate is wrong and this band's name is meant to be "The Groove"!

Ha! Doonyen rocks

First song I ever heard by them that Panda track. Hooked. I hear they really bring it live too

@Lizbot - closest I ever got to something like the collages was splicing leader tape onto my reels of 1/4” tape. Back then cassettes were still only for answering machines - Dolby noise reduction was a few years away.

@Brian D - same!

Evening Liz

@Wesley - I miss my old answering machine tapes! I only had an answering machine with a cassette tape in college and for the first half of my 20s, at which point it was pretty much all early cellphone digital voicemail, which sounded so much worse! I used to love recording my outgoing voicemail message on the tapes cuz you could play a song behind yr voice and it actually sounded pretty good. NOT so with the cell voicemail messages!

Hello Ossy!

@Wesley - I saved a some of my favorite voicemail cassettes for years, especially the ones with early messages from my husband from when we were first dating, but those are looooong gone!

(sorry) I just get hyper when playing DEVO!

Nice!!

Hi Jordan Email Blum!

👁️👁️

Hi TAndy!

@TAndy - You missed an earlier convo in this chat in the first half of the show today that your screen name reminds me of: Wesley brought up the possibility of building a furry computer at a Build a Bear workshop in response to my playing "Furry Computer 2" by Smoke Bellow. Could be a stuffed TAndy!

man, this song is so catchy, but I don't think I wanna meet Mr. Rake and Scrape! Found this in Exuma last March - Rake & Scrape is one of the most popular genres there

Some early XTC! Their first full album.

I would legitimately love to buy any new product that has the Tandy name on it hahahah

there ya go, Wes - more Wendy!

I feel like I'm inside a giant baroque music box when I listen to this

@Wes - it's the XTC/Sparks report!

@TAndy - I remember there used to be an exhibit of old computers dating from my childhood in the atrium of the now-closed Springboard Media on Chestnut St

@TAndy - And of course they had a TAndy

@TAndy - or rather, a Tandy!

@TAndy - I’d guess whatever’s left of the Radio Shack company still owns the rights to the Tandy trademark.

🤖BÖT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JIMBOOOOOOOOOOO

@Lizbot - we didn’t own a copy of the Well Tempered Synthesizer. PS - I’d guess that album name might be an inside joke as early synthesizers were notoriously difficult to keep in tune!

@Wes / TAndy - The ultimate would be if you could find an old Tandy company jacket in a thrift market. Back when the Pennsauken Mart still existed, it had my favorite clothing store: it was nameless but we just called it The Work Clothes store and it was just used uniforms and work clothes, most still with their name tags, plus a bonus bin of old used name tags I LOVED digging through! I found such name tags as "Lead Man Handle" in that bin!

My favorite jacket of my 20s came from the work clothes store at the Pennsauken Mart: It was a Firestone Tires jacket with the name "Steve" on it and when I used to go to Madrid a lot to stay with a good friend who lived there, everyone called "Esssteve!!"

The comedian Jo Firestone should have that jacket!

I can't believe I never heard of the work clothes store, I would have filled my entire wardrobe full of those

Oooh I have a legit Moog synth made by Radio Shack/Realistic!

Give me a thrift store and a pickup truck anyday. Pure joy!

Right on Roffle!

@TAndy - That place was SO much fun to visit! RIP The Mart! It had a giant sign outside that said "45 years strong and still going" and that sign looked at LEAST 40 years old when it closed in 2005/6ish. My husband got his first guitar here when he was 14

Hi Rofflestomp! The golden era of The Mart and the original Camden Village Thrift were great!

Hi Lizbot! Hi folks! I want to do a US tour of thrift stores. The things I have seen while travaling totally justifies the concept.

Makeba awesome

Kitty cat purring! I miss our cats that used to sit in my lap and purr away…

Thank you for the show, Lizbot

Another excellent show, Lizbot, thanks!

@Ossy - Makeba was amazing! My dad had her records in his collection so I thankfully got to hear her a lot as kid

Thanks, Rob!

@Wesley - I miss my sweet stray turned housecat Puss Puss Decrotandru! I just found a 9 year old photo of him sleeping today

Thanx once again for a great show. BCNU!

@ Lizbot (host) I became a Lord Creator fan this night!

Thanks, TAndy!

Just got in a while ago, Nice tunes Lizbot. Best 1/2 hour. Thanks.

'Rake & Scrape" to all!

@Rofflestomp - that would be such an awesome roadtrip! You'd have to leave room enough in your car for all your findings!

Hi Richard! I'm glad to hear it!

Thanks LizBot!

Thanks for listening, Number 6!

Thanks jimboooo!

Good evening, all. Take care, stay safe.